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Yep, the SOPA Battle Continues

December 13, 2011 by Steven Savage

A summary and some of the latest news is here.

If you aren't calling your representatives, raising hell, signing petitions, something, then you're really not following how awful this thing is. It's incredibly heavy-handed and even improvements have not been enough.

Go and raise hell, people.

I get the impression SOPA/Protect-IP is really a kind of last gasp of some media interests, but it's one so draconian and do broad-ranging that it could be misused terribly.

(By the way, the Movie industry is doing darn well despite all the supposed piracy.)

– Steven Savage

Frustration Friday: Lawsuits From The Sweet Spot

May 21, 2010 by Steven Savage

Frustration Friday: Lawsuits from the Sweet Spot

So, as usual we hear about various lawsuits in IT this week. Ironically I could be writing this column any week in the past decade and you could be nodding your head. For that matter, for all you know I wrote this column two years ago – and I'm still right.

So, anyway, the usual IT lawsuits are flying about, it seems like there's quite an extensive web of them, especially in mobile IT as of late. This company sues that company over patents, this company sues another, etc. It's like a very strange game of tag, where everyone gets to be it.

Now it's too easy to dismiss these lawsuits as being about greed, stupidity, or both, but I'd like to suggest that we keep another reason for the constant Technical Law Suit Tsunamis that we progeeks see and wring our hands over.